Kuo: Apple M5 Pro, Max and Ultra chips will offer server-grade performance
With the Apple M4 series chips already out on the latest Macs, noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is now offering a fresh first set of rumors for the M5 generation which are expected to enter mass production in the first half of 2025. The M5 chips will be fabbed on TSMC’s N3P node (3nm), which promises 5 to 10% less power draw than the M4 generation’s N3E process while delivering a 5% performance gain from the production process.
The vanilla Apple M5 chip is expected to enter mass production in H1 2025, followed by the M5 Pro/Max in H2 and the M5 Ultra in 2026. According to Kuo, Apple will employ a “server-grade” System-on-Integrated-Chips-molding-Horizontal (SoIC-mH) design with the M5 Pro/Max and Ultra chips. This type of design uses 30-50% less space than a conventional system on a chip, which should translate to improved thermal performance and less throttling.
In addition, Apple is expected to separate its CPU and GPU designs on the M5 series, which should translate to greater performance gains. The M5 series is expected to offer a substantial boost for AI tasks.
Source (post on X.com)
Reader comments
- Anonymous
There really isnt much silicon difference between server chips and consumer chips. Most of the reliability comes from power margins and binning.
- 12 hours ago
- PnS
- Anonymous
Soic-mh comes free with the node upgrade. Nothing about it makes it exclusively "server grade".
- 12 hours ago
- PnS
- Anonymous
Yes, this is correct, intel effectively wants to bring back itanium. However(and it's a pretty big however) the vast majority of things you run are 32 bit, even to this day. Its why X elite processors suck so bad in real world usage, even though...
- 12 hours ago
- PnS